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Here’s a question: Why is it called “Restaurant Wars”? There are two restaurants and they battle it out only once. So if anything, it should be called "Restaurants War," right? Then again, it doesn’t matter what it is called, because it’s one of the most anticipated challenges for chefs and viewers alike. There are no product placements and no history lessons — just good old-fashioned cooking and service. But first, let’s get caught up. After all, it has been a few weeks. Last challenge, Katsuji won for making a side dish and Gregory took an uncharacteristic slip, landing on the bottom for making rubbery goose. But the judges...

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Here’s a question: Why is it called “Restaurant Wars”? There are two restaurants and they battle it out only once. So if anything, it should be called "Restaurants War," right?
Then again, it doesn’t matter what it is called, because it’s one...

It’s time for another season of "Survivor," and we’re doing "Blood vs. Water" again. We start out with the family members together, at least for a night. So here’s what we’re working with this season:
Jon and Jaclyn: she’s...

Episode 9 of the All-Star season took the five teams from Rome into Switzerland.
You said you wanted more snowy scenery, right? And you pleaded for gondolas, Bernese Mountain Dogs and references to Wilhelm Tell. You got all of them in Episode 9, which...

Episode 7 of the All-Star season took the teams from Sri Lanka to the Eternal City, which the contestants had to figure out meant Rome. They all knew that - eventually. Rachel's first thought was Ethiopia.
After another non-elimination leg, the...

Episode 8 of the All-Star season sent the six remaining teams from Rome to the Italian countryside. It was a fine, fine episode, with plenty of decicious eye candy, fun tasks and, finally, some inter-team crankiness.
The teams have been so very kind to...

This episode was less about endings and more about beginnings.
Aptly titled “New Directions,” the episode focuses on closing McKinley High’s Glee Club once and for all with the current New Directioners as well as all of the familiar faces that came...

Episode 6 of the All-Star season showed us a tightly run leg in Sri Lanka, where teams raced by train, taxi and tuk-tuk in and around the capital city of Colombo.
It turned out to be a non-elimination leg, which was a pretty satisfying conclusion to...

Now everything makes sense.
In Episode 4 of what remains a not-so-stellar All-Star season, contestants looked into the camera and revealed to us the mysterious sources of their behavior.
We in Apartment 81 had been thinking all along, for instance, that...

Margie and Luke had their fates sealed about 15 minutes into Episode 5, and there wasn't much suspense after that.
We knew it wasn't going to be a non-elimination leg because last week was.
Almost the first 15 minutes of this episode was spent...

About midway through the episode, it became so clear who this week's eliminated team was going to be that the show itself seemed to lose interest.
Not that Team You Tube was that interesting anyway, on this season or Joey and Meagan were pleasant...

Well, that was a pretty spectacular finale, wasn’t it?
The final episode of "The Amazing Race” All-Star season managed to solve the major problem of finale episodes. They’re often anti-climactic. Too often, one of the remaining teams – sometimes...

The 10th leg of the All-Star season took the five teams from Zurich, Switzerland to Seville, Spain.
Here's what we saw in Spain.
In this week's very entertaining Detour, we saw bulls running through the streets of Seville. Well, not actually bulls....

This week on "The Amazing Race" we see what happens when heat, stress and jet lag collide. Hint: it's a degree of crazy we've never seen before.But first, remember last week? All the teams were sliding into a manure pond in New Zealand. Then...

Remember last week on "The Amazing Race," when John had a few extended moments of crazy and got eliminated? That’s still funny. But now it is time for the teams to leave Bali and head to Vietnam. "Word on the street," tweets Phil,...

This week, "The Amazing Race" gives us bushmen and scorpions in Africa, which is just what we all needed, right?
The first clue tells teams that they must go to the city of Maun in the Kalahari desert. They have to find out what country they're...

The longer former National Security Agency contract employee Edward Snowden stays holed up in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport while Russian President Vladimir Putin cynically proclaims him a martyr to freedom of speech...

I'm filling in for your regular recapper, Janell. I'm usually on b's dance show beat, covering "Dancing with the Stars" and "So You Think You Can Dance." This show is pairs of people doing things that are uncomfortable, so how...